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  <title>Creative Loafing Tampa: Bad Habits</title>
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    <title>Last call: Tatangelo bids farewell</title>
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        By Wade Tatangelo
      
      
      Thanks to everyone who followed my alcohol-soaked adventures, suffered through my smart-ass guidance and took pleasure in reading about my reckless ways. I wore several hats at Creative Loafing &mdash; staff writer, music critic, music website co-editor, office loudmouth &mdash; but my favorite role was Bar Tab author. As you might have already heard, CL has laid me off (and two of my editorial colleagues and close friends, among others). This is my final CL Bar Tab.&nbsp; To mark the
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    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>What to buy your favorite drinking man (or woman) this holiday season</title>
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        By Wade Tatangelo
      
      
      We all have that special person in our lives who enjoys drinking the way small children take pleasure in playing with puppies. And with the holiday season upon us, it&#39;s time to buy him a present. After handing your beloved imbiber a gift certificate to a big-box outlet like Total Wine &amp; More, not only won&#39;t he bitch, he&#39;ll surely put it to good use. But your spouse or life partner might be put off by the impersonal nature of
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    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Tips on holiday office party etiquette</title>
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        By Wade Tatangelo
      
      
      It&#39;s that hap- hap- happiest time of the year again. Time for calendar-closing budget crunches, shitty bonuses (jelly of the month club, anyone?) and, oh yes, holiday office parties -- those awkward soirees where upper management and the beleaguered cubicle monkeys are forced to commingle. It&#39;s the optional event you simply must attend. Pent-up rage, free booze and loathsome co-workers around every corner make the celebration a recipe for disaster on par with bringing Zionist Jews and militant Muslims together
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    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Wine, women and Nintendo Wii for Thanksgiving</title>
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        By Wade Tatangelo
      
      
      The long Thanksgiving weekend started like Thanksgiving weekends usually do, with a tremendously wild Wednesday night that left me hurting and hung over when it came time for the big gobbler feast. Oh well. It was worth it. Usually is. The celebrating (i.e. drinking) started just before 5 p.m. Wednesday with a Jameson and soda at Four Green Fields, one of my favorite pubs in Tampa Bay. Maybe in the world. Co-workers Eric Snider and Wayne Garcia, plus a posse
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    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The greatest drinking songs for coping with the holidays</title>
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        By Wade Tatangelo
      
      
      Holy shit. It&#39;s the holidays already. Which means most of us will be drinking even more than normal. Most likely in a fortified, well-stocked bedroom where those obnoxious relatives can&#39;t find us -- or a dingy neighborhood bar. Here are some tunes to help with the process. Cheers. Song: &quot;The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me),&quot; Artist: Tom Waits Killer line: &quot;The bouncer is a Sumo wrestler cream-puff Casper milquetoast.&quot; Tom Waits&#39; classic saloon song recalls a surreal scene at
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>BBQ and babes at Vinoy Park&amp;#39;s Ribfest</title>
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        By Wade Tatangelo
      
      
      My buddy Decker&#39;s 10:38 Saturday morning call went unanswered. But it did manage to rouse me from a heavy, booze-induced slumber that was so death-like that I later learned that multiple 4 a.m. phone calls and pounding on my bedroom window went unheard. Oh well. I called Decker back, and a superb plan was hatched for his fianc&eacute;e Kristin and him to pick my ass up so we could attend Ribfest in St. Petersburg. I didn&#39;t give a damn about
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>A toast to film&amp;#39;s memorable boozers</title>
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        By Wade Tatangelo
      
      
      1. Dudley Moore as Arthur Bach in Arthur (1981) As a kid, I wanted to be Indiana Jones. I discovered this classic comedy in my mid-20s and have considered Arthur Bach my personal Jesus ever since. Killer line: &quot;Not all of us who drink are poets. Some of us drink because we&#39;re not poets.&quot; 2. Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut in The African Queen (1951) Rat Pack founder Bogie could out-drink anyone in Hollywood &mdash; back when actors took great
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        From Ugly Men to bodacious babes, it was a wild Halloween weekend....
       
      
        By Wade Tatangelo
      
      
      Famed local do-gooders 13 Ugly Men threw a killer costume party Halloween night at the newly renovated Sheraton Riverwalk in downtown Tampa. Amy Winehouses, Hugh Hefners, Slashes, Sarah Palins, awesomely naughty nurses and scores of smokin&#39;-hot she-devils populated the estimated crowd of 2,000. If you were a dude on the prowl, it was the place to be. About 70 percent of the attendees were women, the vast majority being, well, babes. I played it all stealthy behind a Venetian mask
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>How to hide your hangover at work</title>
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        By Wade Tatangelo
      
      
      We&#39;ve all been there. Foggy-headed, bleary-eyed, fat-tongued, dry-mouthed, queasy and worried nut-less about getting an 8:45 a.m. DUI while driving to the office. You didn&#39;t mean to get incredibly loaded on a weeknight -- drink your body weight and not tap out until the barkeep shoved you through the door. It just happened. Unexpected intoxication can also occur when you hunker down at home. Bet your paycheck on a Monday Night Football game, lost and wound up draining an entire
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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Wade seeks World Series watering hole</title>
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        By Wade Tatangelo
      
      
      Unless that evil Phillies Phanatic finds a way to spike the Rays&#39; water cooler with something from the Amy Winehouse stash of mind-twisting substances, it&#39;s my bet that our awesomely young ball club will soon bring St. Petersburg its greatest honor: a Major League Baseball world championship. Which ain&#39;t too shabby for a team that finished at the bottom last year &mdash; or for a city dismissed for decades as God&#39;s Waiting Room. On each night the Rays square off
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    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Dunderbak&amp;#39;s to leave University Square Mall for Tampa Palms</title>
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        By Wade Tatangelo
      
      
      She made him do it. That&#39;s right. J.B. Ellis&#39; wife Christina made him purchase Mr. Dunderbak&#39;s. What a woman! An original occupant of Tampa&#39;s University Mall, the 35-year-old institution has evolved during Ellis&#39; decade-long ownership from a half-ass chain restaurant into a beloved and prestigious German beer bar &mdash; one that&#39;s about to get even better. In February 2009, the &quot;beirgarten, marktzplaz and restaurant&quot; relocates to larger digs near Tampa Palms. The new spot will make Mr. Dunderbak&#39;s one of
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    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollis Gillespie lets go</title>
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        By Hollis Gillespie
      
      
      Since I had sex with George Clooney it&#39;s occurred to me that I&#39;m better than everyone else. I&#39;m aware that some of you think that just because George Clooney kissed me twice -- THAT&#39;S RIGHT GEORGE CLOONEY KISSED ME TWICE THAT&#39;S PRACTICALLY MAKING OUT WHICH IN THE BIBLE BELT MEANS WE HAD SEX YES I HAD SEX WITH GEORGE CLOONEY SEX WITH GEORGE CLOONEY SEX WITH GEORGE CLOONEY -- to say we had sex is pushing it, but I invite
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Why Rays baseball strikes out in Tampa</title>
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        By Wade Tatangelo
      
      
      I thought baseball finally had a chance of inspiring the same mania as football in Tampa. Last Sunday, the Tampa Bay Rays were scheduled to face off with the Chicago White Sox for their third playoff game ever -- with a chance to sweep the five-game series -- while the Bucs were playing their fifth regular-season game against Denver, an out-of-conference opponent. Clearly, the Rays were in far more crucial and compelling circumstances. But the scene I witnessed -- with
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollis Gillespie makes out with George Clooney</title>
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        By Hollis Gillespie
      
      
      Grant now believes his black ass has special powers, and I would never have believed him except for yesterday. But before I tell you what happened, and by the way I cannot wait to tell you what happened, I have to explain that Grant has been saying lately that things happen to him, special things, when he&#39;s wearing his black ass, as opposed to when he&#39;s wearing the white one, even though he bought both from the same online fake
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>When did drinking become a bad thing?</title>
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        By Wade Tatangelo
      
      
      History is rife with hardcore drinkers. Noah, Ben Franklin, Winston Churchill, Sam Houston, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothy Parker, Babe Ruth and Frank Sinatra are just a few of the luminaries who enjoyed a cocktail or five on a daily basis &mdash; and weren&#39;t afraid to admit their affection for libations. &quot;I feel sorry for people who don&#39;t drink,&quot; Ol&#39; Blue Eyes said. &quot;When they wake up in the morning, that&#39;s as good as they&#39;re going to feel all
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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